Sunday, 22 August 2010

"Ah, this is so un-Agile" or Agile People Still Don't Get It

Early in the development cycle, it’s perfectly acceptable to go for a policy of "zero bugs" and "100% tests". But as the deadline looms, these choices need to be reconsidered all the time and evaluated while keeping a close eye of the final goal. Very often, Agilists simply forget that their job is to produce software that satisfies customers, not software that meets some golden software engineering scale.